There's an article in the Museums Section of the New York Times yesterday about museums activities in social network spaces. it was my conversation with Dan Frost (the frelance reporter who wrote the piece) that sparked my recent blog postings about the subject. Dan's piece is a good intro ... and there are a lot of Museums and the Web papers about the subject this year, and in past years [search the bibliography].

Killer Statue — Psyched About the Site!

Theme: Social Media and Cultural Communication

URL: http://nlablog.wordpress.com/conference-2008/
Location: Sydney, Australia
Masterclasses: Australian Museum, Thursday 28 February 2008
Conference: Museum of Sydney, Friday 29 February 2008

Social media have swiftly risen from obscurity to become one of the hot topics of cultural communication. Portals such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Flickr all represent a new, content-rich opportunity for online interaction, and their rising popularity demonstrates their appeal.

Major libraries and museums worldwide are starting to use social media technologies such as blogs, wikis and content shares to engage visitors and communities of interest in an ongoing relationship. It looks like social media are here to stay – so what do you need to know about them?

This event will raise some of the major issues in the field, as well as demonstrate best practice and state of the art initiatives. A varied and informative agenda will benefit management, curators, archivists, librarians, technologists and public program executives.

WWW2007 Workshop:

Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization

Tuesday May 8, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Call For Papers and Participation

http://www2007.redlog.net/